1657 in poetry
# 1657 in poetry

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## Works published

* Nicholas Billingsley, Brachy-Martyrologia
* Henry Bold, Wit a Sporting in a Pleasant Grove of New Fancies
* William Davenant, Poems on Several Occasions
* Henry King, Poems, Elegies, Paradoxes, and Sonnets, published anonymously and in an unauthorized edition
* Joshua Poole, English Parnassus, an early handbook on poetry, with a preface signed "J. D.", apparently John Dryden

## Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

* Arai Hakuseki (died 1725), Japanese poet, writer and politician
* John Norris (died 1712), English theologian, philosopher and poet
* Susanna Elizabeth Zeidler (died 1706), German poet
* Ebba Maria De la Gardie (died 1697), Swedish poet

## Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

* April ? – Richard Lovelace (born 1617), English Cavalier poet
* Johann George Moeresius (born 1598), Polish poet and rector
